less seen photos of Gholamreza Takhti

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Because he was a national hero his funeral, organized by Hossein Towfigh, editor in chief of the late Towfigh magazine, drew hundreds of thousands of mourners. Towfigh magazine issued a special edition of their popular weekly magazine where they caricatured Takhti with angel wings flying high above the throngs of persian mourners at his own funeral with a caption that read “Don’t cry for me, cry for your own plight.”

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